broomweed

1. 1.

   annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers

   Synonymsbroom-weedGutierrezia texana

   Broadermatchweed

   Part ofGutierrezia

Other forms of broomweed

plural

broomweeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about broomweed

What does broomweed mean?

broomweed means "annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers".

How many syllables are in broomweed?

broomweed has 2 syllables: broom-weed. The stress falls on "broom".

What is another word for broomweed?

Close synonyms include broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is broomweed a common word?

broomweed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.